Alec Baldwin offers unnecessary explanation of SNL's Trump cold open

SNL returned to its live iteration over the weekend, kicking off the new season with a cold open satirizing the first (and maybe only????) presidential debate of 2020, featuring Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and the debut of Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden. But the episode aired during a tumultuous time for this great nation, as countless citizens have taken to Twitter to either celebrate or chastise others for celebrating the hospitalization of Donald Trump following his COVID-19 diagnosis. The former reality show host and alleged rapist has taken up residence in Walter Reed to receive treatment for a virus he has egregiously referred to as both a “hoax” and “the China virus”—quotes that were aptly mocked by Baldwin’s Trump during the SNL cold open. Some people (who? WHO?) think it’s wrong to openly rejoice in Trump’s illness, despite the fact that it is very satisfying to see the bad man experiencing the direct consequences of his willfully irresponsible actions.